FADEY SARGSYAN DECIDED NOT TO RESIGN

Lragir.am
05.04.2006

The meeting of the presidency of the National Academy of Sciences
of Armenia on April 5 lasted for over 4 hours, but no episode of the
forecast came true. Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan did not turn up,
the president of the NAS did not resign.

The gathering of the academicians, who lived the greater part of their
lives under the Soviet rule, reminded similar gatherings of Soviet
times. The leader is never mistaken, the criticizer is a betrayer. The
meeting of the presidency of the NAS of non-Soviet Armenia heard
the 13 accusations of Academician Henry Nersisyan against Fadey
Sargsyan. Henry Nersisyan was characterized as “having dishonest aims,
an extremist capable of anything, eccentric.” And Fadey Sargsyan as
someone who made Armenia prosperous, having great merits, too tolerant.

The finish of the “revived” Soviet lifestyle was “disturbed”
by Academicians Hrachik Simonyan and Lenser Aghalovyan only, who
disagreed to the words addressed to Henry Nersisyan. Moreover,
like Henry Nersisyan, they wanted to find out where the 50 million
drams economized from the sum of honorariums of the academicians,
the annual 5 million drams from the lease of the territory, belonging
to the NAS, as well as donations to the NAS disappear. The commission
had not answered these questions either.

And the chair of the commission Yuri Chilingaryan declined to
answer the same questions during the meeting, saying “we wouldn’t
like to frighten our benefactors.” It apparently means that not
everything is clean but let us not talk about it “not to frighten
our benefactors.” Instead, speaking about the Medical Genetic Center,
headed by Tamara Sargsyan, Fadey Sargsyan’s daughter, the commission
found that the phrase “her daughter’s center” used by Fadey Sargsyan
is unacceptable. Similarly, it means that Fadey Sargsyan cannot be
introduced as the president of the NAS, Yuri Chilingaryan cannot be
introduced as the head of the department of Yerevan State University.

Fadey Sargsyan has formed a bureau, an advisory body, which passed
decisions, however. Nevertheless, the commission thinks that the law
was not broken. At the same time, the presidency of the NAS offers “to
choose in such cases the way which is more democratic, like the system
of academy.” However, no one explained why such a democratic system
does not accept criticism or an opinion that differs from the majority.

At the end, not deferring to some people’s requests, Fadey Sargsyan
announced that there was no reason for dismissing Henry Nersisyan. And
deferring to the request of the same persons, announced that he will
not resign. And the meeting of the presidency of the NAS decided to
approve the findings of the commission, eliminate the shortcomings,
reported by the commission.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress